Microsoft (MSFT) stock is trading at its lowest level in over a year, closing at a fresh 52-week low this week. The stock is currently priced around $356 and is down more than 25% year-to-date.
June has been particularly rough. MSFT is on pace for its worst monthly performance since December 2000, dropping 21.6% month-to-date.
It’s not alone. Every member of the so-called Magnificent Seven is in the red for June. Amazon is down 15.8%, Tesla off 14.1%, Meta down 13.9%, Apple lower by 11.7%, Alphabet off 9.7%, and Nvidia down 7.8%.
But Microsoft is leading the pack lower, and some analysts think there’s more pain ahead.
John Roque, technical strategist at 22V Research, has taken to calling the group the “Maleficent 7.” It’s a pointed rebrand for a cohort that drove one of the biggest bull runs in market history.
Roque’s case on Microsoft is straightforward. The stock has traded below a downward-sloping 200-day moving average since February 2026. It was rejected at that falling average in early June and has dropped more than 18% since.
Microsoft has not made investors money in more than two and a half years. It also sits at a six-and-a-half-year low relative to the S&P 500.
Stifel analyst Brad Reback lowered his price target on MSFT to $400 this week, well below where many on Wall Street are sitting.
His concern centers on margin compression. Reback estimates Microsoft’s gross margins could shrink by 450 basis points year-over-year in FY27, landing around 63%. Street consensus sits at 66.5%.
The driver is structural. Building, cooling, and maintaining AI data centers requires heavy capital expenditure and leads to rising depreciation costs. That pressure doesn’t ease quickly.
Reback also flagged that Wall Street’s FY27 EPS estimate of $19.45 looks too high by roughly a dollar, given surging finance lease obligations and upper single-digit operating expense growth.
Free cash flow is declining too. If it doesn’t recover by FY27, Microsoft’s ability to fund dividends and buy back stock will be constrained, Reback said.
MSFT’s relative strength index has dropped into the late 20s, a level that signals “oversold” conditions. That can sometimes trigger a short-term bounce, but Reback is urging caution.
Roque’s technical read is more bearish still. Microsoft found support near $350 in April 2025 and again more recently. He doesn’t think that level holds this time.
A clean break below $350 would, on his analysis, open the door to $250. That’s measured from the stock’s failure near $450 in early June and represents a drop of roughly 30% from current levels.
The Roundhill Magnificent Seven ETF (MAGS), which tracks the group, is also trading below its 40-week moving average, which has started to roll over.
Four of the seven names are down double digits in 2026. Microsoft, Meta, and Tesla carry the weakest technical scores in the group.
Dan Ives at Wedbush put it bluntly: “Microsoft and Meta are being treated by investors like they are wearing winter jackets to the beach in the summer.”
MSFT’s RSI remains deep in oversold territory as of June 26, 2026.
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